Dangerous Quotes

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Dark and Dangerous. And all mine.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that it's dangerous to write lyrics quickly like that and that I should be carefully.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

All extremes are dangerous.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.